Author's Note: Hullo, everyone! Just a head's up that this story might not be updated for awhile because I haven't had any ideas for chapter four really... Suggestions welcome! And remember, reviews make me happy!

Macyn Blue

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Chapter Three

Dinners

"I don't wanna go in there!" Lorelai whined as she and Rory stepped up to the front doors of the elder Gilmore's house, Luke and Jess right behind them.

"But we have to, we have a deal with them." Rory replied, looking over at her mother with a slight pout on her face.

"No, no, correction. You have a deal with them you are the one that has to go in there. Luke and I could leave, leaving you and Jess stranded here. Say hello to Adolph and Eva for me." Lorelai said.

"But you wouldn't leave me here, with Jess, here at this house! Besides how can you call Grandpa Adolph?" Rory said, looking over at her mother with big blue eyes.

Jess leaned towards Luke a bit, "I'm not sure if I should be insulted or not."

"Tough love baby. And Grandpa's is not Adolph-he's Eva." Lorelai replied.

Rory nodded in understanding and agreement.

Lorelai grabbed Luke's hand and pulled him up onto the doorstep also, moving behind him to hide.

"Okay, ring the bell." Lorelai said, crouching slightly behind Luke as Rory rang the doorbell.

Rory turned around quickly, and grabbed Jess's hand and pulled him up next to her on the doorstep.

"Is it just me, or is it crowded?" Luke said, looking at Jess.

"Or how about the fact that both of them are worse then they were a couple of years ago." Jess replied.

"Shhh! She'll hear the joking-it'll make her broomstick kick into over drive to bring her to the door. And once she has us in side she'll throw us into oven for tomorrow's dinner!" Lorelai exclaimed, peeking over Luke's shoulder at the rest of the group.

Rory grimaced inwardly as a prudish maid opened the door. Bidding them enter, the group came into the house, taking off their coats and handing them to the maid.

"1 hour, 59 minutes, 60 seconds." Lorelai muttered under her breath.

"What?" Luke said, looking at her with a raised brow.

"That is the exact time I plan on extricating us from here." Lorelai replied, flipping her hair over her shoulder.

"Shhh, guys, she's coming." Rory said, plastering a fake smile on her face.

"Why hello, Rory, Lorelai." Emily said as she came into the room. "Mr. Danes, Mr. Mariano." Emily nodded curtly to the two men who all of a sudden looked very uncomfortable under Emily's scrutinizing gaze.

"Mrs. Gilmore." Luke greeted, while Jess returned the nod, placing his arm around Rory's waist.

"Jeez, is it cold in here?" Jess said into her ear quietly so that Emily couldn't hear as she led the couples into the living room.

"Well, it is nice to have everyone together, it's not very often that I get to meet the men in my daughter and granddaughter's lives."

"Mom, you've met Luke and Jess before. You've met Luke on several different occasions." Lorelai replied with a look that said: 'why are you acting so polite unless you've got something nasty up your sleeve.'

"Uhh, Grandma, where's grandpa?" Rory asked, trying to change the subject.

"Oh, your Grandfather is out of town on another one of his business trips." Emily replied. "So, Mr. Mariano, what do you do for a living?" Emily asked.

"I'm a writer." Jess replied.

"Well what do you write?" Emily asked, hands folded primly in her lap.

"This and that." Jess said, leaning back a little into the couch.

"I see…" Emily said.

"Jess wrote a book, Grandma." Rory supplied.

"What kind of a book?" Emily directed the question at Jess, raising her eyebrows.

"A short novel." Jess said.

"That's very interesting, maybe I should read it sometime." Emily said, directing her attention towards Lorelai and Luke now.

"Yeah, maybe." Jess said quietly. Rory quietly jabbed him in the side, giving him a look that said: 'I know she's been rude, but please don't make it worse…'

"So Lorelai, you mentioned before that you had something to tell your father and I, although your father isn't here now, I am sure I could relay the message." Emily said.

"Oh umm…I, I mean we're, uhh-"

"We're getting married, Mrs. Gilmore." Luke supplied for Lorelai.

"Oh." Emily said, a tight smile appearing on her face. "How lovely, Lorelai. You marrying a man who is a class lower than yourself, how utterly darling." Emily said.

"Mom," Lorelai started.

Emily suddenly looked at her watch. "Oh, look at the time, dinner is ready." Emily said, standing and walking into the dinning room, her guests trailing behind. Everyone took their perspective seats, with Emily sitting at the head of the table.

"Isabel!" Emily called for the maid. The maid instantly scurried out into the dinning room, laying a salad in front of each person.

"Mom, as I was saying earlier, Luke and I are getting married soon. And I thought that maybe you would like to know about it, before, you know everything happens, and Luke is your son-in-law-"

"Yes well, that congratulations to the both of you." Emily said curtly before turning her attention back to the salad before her.

"Mom-"

"I really doubt that you thought this through at all." Emily said suddenly.

"Yes we did, Mom."

"No you didn't. You didn't consider anyone beside yourselves at all!" Emily replied.

"Mom if your not happy for us, I can live with that. If you won't attend the wedding, I'll have Stalin come back from the grave and take your place. If you don't want to have any contact with me what so ever, my life will role on. But what I won't abide is that your treating my fiancé like your better than him!" Lorelai said sharply, her icy blue eyes glinting.

"Come on, let's go." Lorelai said, taking Luke's hand and leading him toward the door.

Emily pursed her lips as she watched her granddaughter and her boyfriend stand to leave as well.

Rory looked across the table at her grandmother, Rory's eyes had turned cold suddenly, and her demeanor was one that Jess was actually slightly afraid of personally.

"I'm sorry Grandma, but Mom is happy with Luke, and if you can not even try being decent to either Jess or Luke than I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you are to conceited and self absorbed that you can't look beyound yourself one second and look at the wonderful two men that have made your daughter and granddaughter happy… Maybe the happiest we've been in a while." Rory said, she blinked back tears that had formed in her eyes as she said the last part.

Pulling on Jess's sleeve lightly, the couple walked towards the door, receiving their coats from the maid.

He led her over to the waiting car, and opened the door for her. And she gasped, "Why Jess Mariano, I didn't know that you could be a gentleman!"

"Yeah well, on rare occasion I can be persuaded." Jess said, smirking at her as he got in next to her.

"Okay, you two. Enough for now." Lorelai teased lightly, looking back at the couple and smiled slightly.

She was happy that Rory was happy.

"I think that was one of the more 'happy' dinners that we've had at the Gilmore house, don't you?" Lorelai asked Rory as the mother and daughter linked arms and walked towards the diner, the boys trailing behind them, both men having their hands jammed into their pants pockets.

"Sure, if you consider having your limbs removed 'happy', than yeah I suppose it was along those lines." Rory replied sarcastically.

"Yeah well." Lorelai replied lamely, her focus mainly on forgetting the evening's events.

"Luke, open door." Lorelai said as her fiancé came up next to her, unlocking the door, and admitting the others enter.

Rory stood outside the door, not really wanting to be around her mother and her soon to be stepfather.

"Are we going in?" Jess asked looking at her with quizzical eyes.

Rory let out a sigh. "You can…I don't know, I just don't feel much like it." Rory said, casting her light blue eyes downwards.

Jess stepped closer to her, and pulled her into his arms, wrapping his arms around her waist. Rory leaned into him, relaxing into his chest, her head against his shoulder.

"I don't know what's wrong with me." She mumbled against his shirt. She breathed in the scent of his cologne. She moved her arms up to his neck, wrapping them around it.

He didn't answer, just pulled her closer for a long second, before letting her go.

Taking her hand, he started to lead her away. "Jess, where are we going?" Rory asked, her eyes tired.

"Come on." Was all he said, grinning slightly. Rory decided to not question him, and instead just let him lead her through the town.

When they finally got to their destination; a smile broke out on Rory's lips, she couldn't help herself. He had taken her to the bridge…She hadn't been here in such a long time.

"Why are we here?" She asked, looking around them before her eyes finally went back to Jess.

"You said you didn't know what was wrong with you…so I brought you back to the place where you feel most comfortable." He replied shrugging slightly.

Rory let a small smile slip onto her lips. She walked over to him and kissed him lightly, tilting her head to the side as she pulled away. "Thank you, for bringing me here." She stepped back and looked down a moment before looking out towards the water.

"Did you mean that-what you said earlier?" Jess asked, studying her with his dark eyes.

Rory knew what he was referring to. He was referring to her comment about him making her happy.

She smiled warmly at him. "When I was with Logan all that while, I was having fun, partying, hanging out with his friends who became my friends in the process, then I stole a boat. And everything changed…mom and I didn't have the same relationship... And then you show up, and just hit me over the head with this proverbial frying pan, making me wake up from whatever I was thinking… You brought me back down to earth, you helped me go back to Yale, and you were there. You became my friend again, and I fell in love with you all over again. Jess, you have made me happier at this moment, than I ever was with the others. I love you." Rory said, there were tears in her eyes as she said the last part as she looked into Jess's dark brown eyes.

Jess wrapped his arm around her waist, and pulled her close to him. Kissing her softly on the lips, Rory's hand slid up to his shoulder and lingered there while she kissed him back.

"I love you." Jess said finally, pulling back and looking into her clear, light blue eyes.

"Well, at least I know the feeling is mutual." Rory said, smiling.

"You're acting like your mother." Jess said, smirking.

"And is that such a bad thing?" Rory asked a smirk that was almost identical to the one on Jess's face playing on her lips.

"For me maybe." Jess said, leaning into her and kissing her.

Rory pulled back, "And for Luke." She said jokingly.

"Jeez, now I'm going to have to think about that." Jess moaned.

Rory laughed, resting her forehead against his, smiling at him with a mischievous glint in her ice blue eyes. She closed her eyes, and rested her head on his shoulder.

"I don't want to move from here." She stated, her eyes still closed.

"From me or just from the general area?" Jess asked, the strawberry scent from her hair entering his nose, and making him take a deeper breath.

"From any of it." She replied, opening the ice blue orbs that were her eyes, and looking back up at him.

"Huh." Was all he said, causing her to smile.

"I guess that whole one word per conversation is reinstated?" Rory said, her eyes dancing with laughter.

"Guess so." Rory grinned at him, before dropping her head back to the warmth of his chest.

"We should go-my mom is going to want to know why we left when they did…Then again considering Mom knows how well my relationship with Grandma is going, she shouldn't be that much surprised." Rory rambled slightly.